Unilever

Learn how Unilever supports multiple channels, suppliers, and geographies, with a global invoice management solution that integrates SAP Invoice Management by OpenText with the Ariba Network. The result is better supplier relationships and lower invoice processing costs—helping meet demand for the 2 billion people worldwide who use Unilever products every day.

Solution Capabilities

Included Capabilities

Enable the transmission of POs and other order-related documents through the Ariba Network

Business network solutions from Ariba, an SAP company, support purchase order collaboration and order collaboration, letting you transmit POs and other order-related documents through the Ariba Network. You can quickly access and respond to ordering activities from internal stakeholders and suppliers, which enables end-to-end collaboration on order fulfillment, including orders, change orders, cancellations, and more. Enablement services help you on-board suppliers onto the network.

Resolve invoice exceptions automatically while receiving digitally signed, legally compliant invoices over a cloud-based business network from Ariba, an SAP company. Use a single network to receive invoices that suppliers can submit through standard digital interfaces, purchase order and contract-invoicing functions, portals, or back-office systems. Verify invoices automatically, get them to accounts payable faster for approvals, and make accounting and shared services more productive.

Record and manage accounts payable data from vendors

SAP software enables accounts payable departments to record and manage all accounts payable data and then integrate that data with a company’s purchasing system. Postings to accounts payable are simultaneously recorded in the general ledger. All standard payment methods are supported. Cash management is updated with figures from the invoice to allow for liquidity planning. All country-specific payment formats can be leveraged for adaptation to local country rules and regulations.

Make working capital work better by optimizing early payment discounting

Keep a healthy cash balance while still generating cash earnings, even in a volatile economy, with dynamic discount management software from SAP. Encourage supplier participation in early payment discounting by offering discount options customized to each client’s needs. Simplify discount management through collaboration across multiple business processes – giving suppliers and buyers visibility into order and invoice status, payment timing and fulfillment, and discount opportunities.

Store, archive, and retrieve invoices and other important documents in a secure, central location with document retention and archiving software from SAP. Improve efficiency in accounts payable by enabling people to store and retrieve documents quickly with an intuitive, customizable, folder-based interface. Promote cross-department collaboration by enabling document sharing across applications. Increase compliance and reduce risk by archiving documents in a secure, unalterable form.

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